Martin Sellner is considered the chief ideologist of the extreme right and a pioneer of “remigration”. He knows how to present himself. He disguises evil with nonchalance.
By Florian Schroeder
At the very end, shortly before he has to leave the Viennese coffee house, he lightly asks the crucial question: which camp benefited more. Mine, which is now providing impressive images with demonstrations against the right, or his, which has brought the term “remigration” into the center of the debate? Martin Sellner grins, he seems genuinely curious about the answer.
Given the AfD’s poll numbers, which have been falling for weeks, it is clearly the liberal camp, I say. Sellner sees it the other way around. He has to too. He has done his job and achieved his goal. Thanks to Correctiv’s research into the Potsdam meeting, remigration is now on everyone’s lips. With his speech at the Adlon country house at the end of November, he brought the term into conversation so successfully that a jury frantically named it the bad word of the year – an accolade from Sellner’s point of view.